Family of two brothers, five and three, swept away from their father's arms in Spain floods say they feel 'destroyed'
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Family of two brothers, five and three, swept away from their father's arms in Spain floods say they feel 'destroyed'

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These are the faces of two brothers missing for more than a week after they were washed from their frantic father's arms following the devastating Valencia floods. A wall of water six feet high – which one local described to MailOnline as a 'tsunami' engulfed the house – the father desperately clung on to his terrified sons as the powerful flood swept around them. A wall of water six feet high – which one local described to MailOnline as a 'tsunami' engulfed the house – the father desperately clung on to his terrified sons as the powerful flood swept around them The area near Izan and Ruben's home. A week on and there has still been no trace of the brothers, whose faces have been posted onto an Instagram page for the missing, and which numbers several hundred, with the death toll at 211 The heartbreaking tragedy coupled with the sheer power of the tidal wave of water is visible as you stand in front of their wrecked house at Torrent To one size jammed at a crazy angle wedged between both banks of the river was a large green shipping container, and against it a bright orange one and a silver car. The children's distraught grandmother Antonia Maria Jimene told MailOnline: 'At one point my son even thought if letting go of the tree branch so he could be swept away as well.

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